Skipped

Part of speech: verb, adjective

Definitions

1. Left out or passed over without being included or dealt with ; moved with light springing steps, or went past a part without doing it
2. Omitted from a list, sequence, or process ; hopped or bounded lightly along, or bypassed a stage or item
3. Missed out or not selected in a series ; leaped in a light bouncing way, or jumped ahead over something

Etymology: "Skipped" is simply the past tense and past participle of "skip", so its story is the story of the verb. "Skip" came into Middle English from North Germanic sources, ultimately from a Proto-Germanic root meaning to push or move repeatedly, and it is related to the English word "shove". The sense of leaping lightly from place to place grew out of that idea of quick, repeated movement, and from there it extended to dropping or omitting something, which is the sense behind "missed out on".